Word: maligned
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...economic aid. Even now, Pyongyang is sending out mixed messages, brandishing a nuclear threat but also hinting that it would disarm in exchange for a non-aggression pact and other concessions from the U.S. That's not palatable to the Bush Administration, but the alternative is a policy of malign neglect in which North Korea is simply cut off from all aid and allowed to implode - and that's a scenario its neighbors find particularly dangerous. South Korea goes to the polls next week to pick a new president, and the race is too close to call between the more...
...While the current work in human genetic engineering is not malign, there is little doubt that there is an interest in using genetics to correct behavior,” he said. “We need a deep social discussion of how to use genetic techniques...
...that produced the 1994 agreement. When North Korea announced it would no longer abide by the nonproliferation treaty, the Clinton Administration effectively purchased peace by promising financial aid if North Korea would quit developing nukes. South Korea and Japan, the regional neighbors most eager to quell North Korea's malign power, gladly put up most of the cash. Critics complained the U.S. was giving in to nuclear extortion. North Korea, they warned, would unveil a threatening new capability whenever it wanted more aid. The latest disclosure proved the hard-liners right about one thing: Kim could not be trusted...
...human reproductive cloning don’t rely on pointing out the serious risk of disease in the clone. Rather, he opposes genetic engineering on the grounds that it might change “human nature” so drastically that it could “have possibly malign consequences for liberal democracy and the nature of politics itself.” He derives his views from Aristotle and the related concept of “natural rights...
Hajji Mullah Sahib does not so much converse as lecture. Afghanistan's woes, past and present, he argues, are the fault of malign interference by the Soviets and the Americans. Operation Enduring Freedom, he says, is a pretense for manipulating Afghan affairs. In a blink he dismisses the argument that the U.S.-led coalition aims only to eradicate al-Qaeda. "If the Arabs were terrorists, why didn't America just catch them?" he asks, instead of launching...